The Stanford Brain Research Center Presents
Neurobiology of Disease
4:15 pm, Munzer Auditorium, Beckman Center
Reception at 5:30 pm at the Beckman Bistro
Thursday, January 13
Emmanuel Mignot, M.D., Ph.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine
"Hypocretins (orexin) and the Sleep Disorder Narcolepsy"
Seminar Host:Lawrence Eng (Department of Pathology)
Thursday, January 20
Nelson Freimer, M.D.
University of California, San Francisco
"Genetic Dissection of Behavioral Traits"
Seminar Host:Robert Malenka (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences)
Thursday, January 27
Daniel Lowenstein, M.D.
University of California, San Francisco
"Epileptogenesis: Developmental Deja Vu?"
Seminar Host:David Prince (Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences)
Thursday, February 3
Denis Selkoe, M.D.
Harvard Medical School
"Presenilins, Notch and the Genesis of Alzheimer's Disease"
Seminar Host:Howard Schulman (Department of Neurobiology)
Thursday, February 10
Hans Breiter, M.D.
Harvard Medical School
"Functional MRI of Normal and Altered Behavioral States"
Seminar Host:Bruce Maciver (Department of Anesthesia)
Thursday, February 17
Eric Shooter, Ph.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine
"Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Peripheral Demyelinating Diseases"
Seminar Host:Linda Cork (Department of Comparative Medicine)
Thursday, February 24
Stuart Lipton, M.D.,Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego
"Channel Block and S-Nitrosylation of NMDA Receptors: From Bench to Clinic"
Seminar Host:TBA
Thursday, March 2
Mashashi Yanagisawa, M.D.,Ph.D.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
"To Eat or to Sleep: Discovery and Function of the Orexin Neuropeptide System"
Seminar Host:Emmanuel Mignot (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences)
Thursday, March 9
Charles J. Weitz, M.D.,Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
"Studies on the Molecular Mechanisms of Circadian Clocks"
Seminar Host:Dan Madison (Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology)
Thursday, March 16
Li-Huei Tsai, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Cdk5 in Brain Development and Degeneration"
Seminar Host:Liqun Luo (Neurosciences Program)